On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 22:55 +0000, Simon Peyton-Jones wrote:
> SECOND, we have produced Release Candidate 1 for GHC 6.12.1, and are
> about to produce RC2. However, before releasing 6.12 we'd like to
> compile all of Hackage, in case doing so reveals bugs in GHC's APIs
> (which are not supposed to change). But we can't do that until an
> update to cabal-install is ready. (We don't expect this dependency to
> happen all the time, but it does hold for 6.12.)
>> Duncan has been working on the cabal-install update, and expects
> to release by end November. So the timetable looks like this:
>> - Very soon: GHC 6.12.1 release candidate 2
> - End Nov: cabal-install release
> - ...test GHC against Hackage...
An update on this:
People can now grab the current darcs version of cabal-install and build
and test it with ghc-6.12 (or indeed earlier ghc versions).
Duncan